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MICDS (Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School) is a secular, co-educational, independent school home to more than 1,250 students ranging from grades Junior Kindergarten through 12. Its 110-acre (45 ha) campus [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is located in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue .
The Country Day School movement is a movement in progressive education that originated in the United States during the late 19th century. Country Day Schools sought to recreate the educational rigor, atmosphere, camaraderie and character-building aspects of the best college-prep boarding schools, [citation needed] while allowing students to return to their families at the end of the day.
In 1922, a group of St. Louisans announced their intention to open a private school in a suburb of St. Louis. "This school is being established to meet a very definite demand for another country day school, and is an outgrowth of a condition whereby existing schools are unable to accept all pupils applying for entrance," the St. Louis Star and Times reported.
During the 1850s Eliot founded Smith Academy for boys and Mary Institute for girls, which later merged and became Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School. [87] Public education in St. Louis, provided by St. Louis Public Schools, began in 1838 with the creation of two elementary schools, and the system quickly expanded during the 1840s. [88]
Ladue is home to two of St. Louis' private high schools, the John Burroughs School and Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School (MICDS). As well as Community School for grades PK-6. The Headquarters Branch of the St. Louis County Library is located in Ladue on Lindbergh Boulevard . [11] [12]
Pages in category "Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School alumni" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
His paternal grandfather, William D. Orthwein (1841–1925), was a German-born grain merchant in St. Louis. [3] Orthwein was educated at the Rossman School and the St. Louis Country Day School. [2] [3] He graduated from Yale University, where he received a degree in business in 1938. [2] [4]
Alma Mater (1916) is a three-figure sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin in the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in Ladue, Missouri that was known as one of his more prominent works at the time [1] and is considered to be among his finest achievements by Kent Ahrens. [2]